{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. XXVII.</span>—29. Wherefore, my beloved brethren, though\r\nthat error is exposed and overcome in many ways, and dare\r\nnot oppose the truth on any show of reason whatsoever, but\r\nonly with the unblushing obstinacy of impudence; yet, not\r\nto load your memory with a multitude of proofs, I would\r\nhave you bear in mind this one action of the followers of\r\nMaximianus, confront them with this one fact, thrust this in\r\ntheir teeth, to make them hold their treacherous tongues,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_253\">[Pg 253]</a></span>\r\ndestroy their calumny with this, as it were a three-pronged\r\ndart destroying a three-headed monster. They charge us\r\nwith betrayal of the sacred books; they charge us with persecution;\r\nthey charge us with false baptism: to all their\r\ncharges make the same answer about the followers of Maximianus.\r\nFor they think that the proofs are lost which show\r\nthat their predecessors gave the sacred volumes to the flames;\r\nbut this at least they cannot hide, that they have received\r\nwith unimpaired honours those who were stained with the\r\nsacrilege of schism. Also they think that those most violent\r\npersecutions are hidden, which they direct against any who\r\noppose them whenever they are able; but whilst spiritual\r\npersecution surpasses bodily persecution, they received with\r\nundiminished honours the followers of Maximianus, whom\r\nthey themselves persecuted in the body, and of whom they\r\nthemselves said, \"Their feet are swift to shed blood;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_681_681\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_681_681\">[681]</a> and\r\nthis at any rate they cannot hide.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-425"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2e82c3a00c219df7d8e43a2ab5f1d68bfab7e6a5ca4c52904e5e484314a7be87","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xiv. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_681_681","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_681_681","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_681_681\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_681_681\"><span class=\"label\">[681]</span></a> Ps. xiv. 6, from the LXX. only.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_681_681","text_sha256":"07fd460286e1f049a1bb5420a4f6e93a677ad1870c1ab43e2e42b66edb1ea00b","verified":false,"work_id":null}